Verb
come to grips with (third-person singular simple present comes to grips with, present participle coming to grips with, simple past came to grips with, past participle come to grips with)
(idiomatic) To confront or deal with directly; to commence a confrontation.
Until she comes to grips with her mother's death, she has no hope of putting it behind her.
Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial. John Ashcroft
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me. Anthony Kiedis
It took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake. I mean, I couldn't believe it. I knew they jumped on it, used the crisis, hyped it up. But then I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen. Alex Jones
In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers. Randal Marlin
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes. Terence McKenna
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. Chuck D